Well, it happened again. Another weekend without wi-fi. But it wasn't the typical, neighbor-must-have-gone-out-of-town-and-shut-off-the-modem-so-I'll-have-to-wait-until-Monday outage. Here it is, Wednesday, and still, no connection. I have seen the network name only once, and I was unable to connect. I fear ol' Tim either moved his personal network, or painted his house with lead. So I had to get back to my roots and I started War Driving again. The sad thing is, my old trusted mystery neighbor signal gave me a faster connection than the Panera I tried, despite being the only one connected after closing time. It shouldn't take an hour to order a flashlight on eBay.
Could this be the end of my 18 month love affair with free internet access? Will I have to sever my left arm and/or leg and crawl to Comcast? Will I build an addition onto my house which extends an extra 10 feet into my backyard with the hope that another signal may exist? Or will I have to quit my job, grow a goatee, buy a beret and dust off my old poetry writing skills so I may become a permanent fixture of coffeehouses? Perhaps.
Just not Starbucks.
So I did some domestic War Chalking and moved around my house. I found a great spot on the couch. It is fast, even at 3 in the afternoon. However, it is incredibly inconvenient as I must keep the MacBook on my lap, which may compromise the use of my junk in the future from the heat of the machine. My quest continues...
I found that my kitchen/dining area served as a decent hot spot. The bars on my AirPort logo fluctuate from 3 to 1, but the speed seems do-able. The only question: do I commit to a big move, hauling the computer desk from my bedgeroom into the complete opposite corner of my house? Do I make room, manipulate the size of my dining table, downsize the dog's favorite hiding place?
Oh, yeah. If it means free surfing once again, I say: make it so.
Goodbye timair01, hello linksys! My guess is it belongs to my new neighbors across the street. Perhaps I should introduce myself. Perhaps I should leave well enough alone and toast to another 18 months!
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Winter HotSpot Hunting
Guard squirrel
Funny little Bud Light commercial where a guy has a squirrel guard his beer.
A little amusing but still entertaining.
Diggnation beer club
Diggnation is a weekly video podcast which is available from Revision3 and it hosts Alex Albrecht (l.) and Kevin Rose (r.). Kevin and friends are the masterminds behind the hugely popular website Digg.com in which the users post weird stories and news from all over.
Each week the guys sit on camera and cover the more popular stories posted to Digg that week, and drink different beers as suggested by the readers.
Now, Diggnation is sponsoring a beer club. For a fee of about $22 a month, you can receive a 12-pack of the beers featured on their site. But you don't have to sign up for a whole year. You can...
Hell, why explain it here, when you can just go to the beer club here.
So v-e-r-r-r-y tempting.
Dawn of the computer age
Ah, yes... when digital was the new analog.
Back before the Apple II and the PC Jr., computers came into being obscurely from less than known sources. In the early 70s when data was stored on puched cards, it took huge machines to sort, collate and trend information.
Return to those thrilling days of yesteryear when the computer age reared its head wearing a very strange hairstlyle.
Clicketh hereth.
(Funtasticus)
Easy being green
Cool pictorial gallery of cars covered in grass, astroturf or green carpet or something.
Makes ya wonder what possesses some people to do this.
Yeah, cover your car with grass and then complain about having to mow the lawn.
Pictures are here.
(CrookedBrains)
Loaded speed bump
German made commercial about a guy who's fed up with the young speeders who fly past his house. He builds his own traffic deterrent with humorous results.
Kinda fakey but funny nonetheless.
(Neatorama)
